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will be ſoon overcome, even to horniſy your head, or ſuch are of have looſes children.
12. Neither do ye encounter with one who hath a big belly, and a baſom full of paps for ſuch are ſeldom wholeſome; nor one who is too tall, for ſuch long people when they fall are too heavy to riſe; but the beſt way under the ſun is to marry and to continue look back to dirty maidens and ſo give them the ſcornful catelogue as follows:
13. O ye haughty maids! ſcorn my proverbs and I'll ſcorn your pride, ſigh for a man when it is too late, and ſend for him when he will not come; your long (illegible text) youth is, I am o'er yuong to marry yet, until the wrinkles riſe on your face like the back of a ram's horn and have but one tooth bound in with a rag, then mak⟨e⟩ a chanter of your thumb, and drones of your long fingers and play, Fain would I marry a man juſt now I'v⟨e⟩ left m⟨y⟩ time and lover too.
14 And here I ſhall be ſilent for a ſhort time, then ſshall I vex vanity once more, let one ſay I am a rattle ſcull, another he is jumbled in his judgment, or diſturbed in his ſtudies, ſo I make an end, leſt they ſay I am become a preacher, and every trade is encroaching upo⟨n⟩ another: now he that wonders at my folly, I'll wonde⟨r⟩ at his wiſdom; then are we even one with another.
PART IV
COme, O men, and miniſters, behold mad men an⟨d⟩ fooliſh women, ruſhing into the bonds of wedloc⟨k⟩ as the horſe into the battle.
1. No ho, no holding back, but John Slooth an⟨d⟩ Maggy Idle muſt be married even becauſe they hav⟨e⟩ no means bu⟨t⟩ meanneſs, no tocher birt T———ls, no w(illegible text) but wickedneſs, no wealth but wanton folly, and poo⟨r⟩ pride is all their poſſeſſion, antiquity only excepted.
3. For he is the honourable laird of Sluggarfield ſon, and ſhe is the daughter of Slip-my-dark.
